Resource Type: Policy Information
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(PDF) FY26 President’s Budget Analysis
The President’s Budget threatens to cut nearly $40 billion from programs that play a key role in local efforts to prevent and end homelessness.
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(PDF) FY26 Homeless Assistance Grants – How Congress Can Help Solve Homelessness
The Alliance urges the Administration and Congressional lawmakers to provide the Homeless Assistance Grants account with a $4.922 billion appropriation in FY26.
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(PDF) Fact Sheet: Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
On March 15, President Trump signed into law a year-long continuing resolution (CR) that extends funding for the federal government through September 30, 2025. Although the continuing resolution generally extends funding levels from fiscal year 2024 enacted funding amounts, it includes increases for defense spending and immigration enforcement while reducing some non-defense funding. The measure…
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FY25 Funding (in millions) for Selected Homelessness and Housing Programs
This chart shows FY25 funding (in millions) for selected homelessness and housing programs.
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Homelessness and Behavioral Health Care Coordination Act (H.R. 773)
H.R. 773 would establish in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a program to provide grants to homelessness organizations that would help them to develop the capacity to access supportive housing services, including billing Medicaid or paying a third party to bill Medicaid.
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Preventing the Use of Housing First
Efforts to limit or weaken Housing First are strongly opposed by the Alliance.
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HUD’s Equal Access Rule
Updated April, 2021 Background In 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development published a final rule in the Federal Register entitled “Equal Access in Accordance with an Individual’s Gender Identity in Community Planning and Development Programs”
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Action
The nation is currently facing one of the most severe affordable housing crises in history. Not surprisingly, those living in poverty are the most significantly affected.
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Homelessness and the Opioid Crisis: Background, Funding, and Resources
In October, 2017, President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. Years of rising prescription opioid use and misuse, followed by a surge in the use of illicit opioids have led to a spike in both overdoses and deaths in the United States.
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Reallocating Permanent Supportive Housing
After years of emphasis on reallocating low performing transitional housing programs, many communities are finding their Continuum of Care (CoC) portfolios are almost entirely composed of permanent housing projects.